• A combined view on precipitation and temperature climatology and trends in the southern Andes of Peru 

      Imfeld, Noemi; Sedlmeier, Katrin; Gubler, Stefanie; Correa, Kris; Davila Arriaga, Cristina; Huerta, Adrian; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Rohrer, M.; Scherrer, Simon C.; Schwierz, Cornelia

      (John Wiley and Sons, 2020-05-13)
      Acceso abierto
      In the southern Peruvian Andes, communities are highly dependent on climatic conditions due to the mainly rain-fed agriculture and the importance of glaciers and snow melt as a freshwater resource. Longer-term trends and ...
    • Construction of a high-resolution gridded rainfall dataset for Peru from 1981 to the present day 

      Aybar Camacho, Cesar Luis; Fernández, C.; Huerta, Adrian; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Vega-Jácome, Fiorella; Felipe-Obando, Oscar

      (Taylor and Francis, 2020)
      Embargado
      A new gridded rainfall dataset available for Peru is introduced, called PISCOp V2.1 (Peruvian Interpolated data of SENAMHI’s Climatological and Hydrological Observations). PISCOp has been developed for the period 1981 to ...
    • Effects of undetected data quality issues on climatological analyses 

      Hunziker, Stefan; Brönnimann, Stefan; Calle, J.; Moreno, Isabel; Andrade, Marcos; Ticona, Laura; Huerta, Adrian; Lavado-Casimiro, W.

      (Copernicus GmbH, 2018-01)
      Acceso abierto
      Systematic data quality issues may occur at various stages of the data generation process. They may affect large fractions of observational datasets and remain largely undetected with standard data quality control. This ...
    • High-resolution grids of daily air temperature for Peru - the new PISCOt v1.2 dataset 

      Huerta, Adrian; Aybar, Cesar; Correa, Kris; Noemi, Imfeld; Correa, Kris; Felipe-Obando, Oscar; Rau, Pedro; Drenkhan, Fabian

      (Nature, 2023)
      Acceso abierto
      Gridded high-resolution climate datasets are increasingly important for a wide range of modelling applications. Here we present PISCOt (v1.2), a novel high spatial resolution (0.01°) dataset of daily air temperature for ...
    • Meteorological factors and childhood diarrhea in Peru, 2005–2015: a time series analysis of historic associations, with implications for climate change 

      Delahoy, Miranda J.; Cárcamo, César; Huerta, Adrian; Lavado-Casimiro, W.; Escajadillo Fernandez, Yury; Ordoñez, Luis; Vasquez-Apestegui, Vanessa; Lopman, Benjamin; Clasen, Thomas; Gonzales, Gustavo F.; Steenland, Kyle; Levy, Karen

      (BioMed Central Ltd, 2021-02-26)
      Acceso abierto
      Background: Global temperatures are projected to rise by ≥2 °C by the end of the century, with expected impacts on infectious disease incidence. Establishing the historic relationship between temperature and childhood ...
    • PISCOeo_pm, a reference evapotranspiration gridded database based on FAO Penman-Monteith in Peru 

      Huerta, Adrian; Bonnesoeur, Vivien; Cuadros-Adriazola, José; Gutierrez Lope, Leonardo; Ochoa-Tocachi, Boris F.; Román-Dañobeytia, Francisco; Lavado-Casimiro, W.

      (Nature, 2022-06)
      Acceso abierto
      A new FAO Penman-Monteith reference evapotranspiration gridded dataset is introduced, called PISCOeo_pm. PISCOeo_pm has been developed for the 1981–2016 period at ~1 km (0.01°) spatial resolution for the entire continental ...
    • Rainfall Erosivity in Peru: A New Gridded Dataset Based on GPM-IMERG and Comprehensive Assessment (2000–2020) 

      Gutierrez, Leonardo; Huerta, Adrian; Sabino, Evelin; Bourrel, Luc; Frappart, Frédéric; Lavado-Casimiro, W.

      (Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú, 2023)
      Acceso abierto
      In soil erosion estimation models, the variables with the greatest impact are rainfall erosivity (𝑅𝐸), which is the measurement of precipitation energy and its potential capacity to cause erosion, and erosivity density ...
    • Summertime precipitation deficits in the southern Peruvian highlands since 1964 

      Imfeld, N.; Barreto Schuler, Christian; Correa, Kris; Jacques-Coper, M.; Sedlmeier, v; Gubler, S.; Huerta, Adrian; Brönnimann, v

      (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019-03)
      Acceso abierto
      Precipitation deficits remain a concern to the rural population in the southern Peruvian highlands and knowledge about their occurrence is lacking because of scarce data availability. For mountainous regions with sparse ...
    • Trends and variability of precipitation extremes in the Peruvian Altiplano (1971–2013) 

      Huerta, Adrian; Lavado-Casimiro, W.

      (John Wiley and Sons, 2020-05-24)
      Embargado
      Precipitation extremes have been investigated throughout the last decades in different regions of the Andes. However, little attention has been paid to the Altiplano region (Central Andes), especially to the Peruvian ...